Nicholas Kolakowski

Nokia plans to show off its first Windows Phone devices at Nokia World in London, which starts Oct. 26. That information came from Andy Lees, president of Microsoft’s Windows Phone division, who told the audience during the Asia D conference Oct. 19: “Next week it’s going to be Nokia World, where they’re going to announce […]

For its first fiscal quarter of 2012, Microsoft reported strong sales of traditional software such as Windows and Office. But its online services, which the company is betting will eventually help supplant traditional software as a major revenue driver, remain a relatively small part of the overall revenue scheme. Overall, Microsoft reported revenue of $17.37 […]

Apple’s 16GB iPhone 4S cost $188 to put together, excluding $8 in manufacturing expenses, according to a new teardown by analysis firm IHS. Moreover, while the smartphone greatly resembles the previous iPhone 4 in its exterior details, the inside apparently offers a host of new hardware. Based on the teardown, the bill of materials for […]

Nokia reported another dip in revenue and profit for the third quarter of 2011, but analysts found those results nonetheless better than expected. On Oct. 20, Nokia reported third-quarter net sales of $12.3 billion, a year-over-year decline of 13 percent, with operating losses of $98.4 million. It sold 16.8 million “smart devices” and 89.9 million […]

Apple’s iPhone 4S comes with a digital assistant named Siri, who responds to voice commands and can perform a variety of tasks ranging from scheduling appointments to sending texts. According to one security analyst, however, Siri also comes with a significant-but easy to fix-security loophole. “I borrowed a passcode-locked iPhone 4S from a colleague here […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used a talk at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco to make the case for Bing and Windows Phone, two company platforms struggling to carve out some market share against Google. In the case of Bing, Ballmer painted the search engine’s progress over the past few years in a positive […]

Research In Motion’s upcoming BBX operating system will operate on both smartphones and tablets, making the company the latest to jump into the unified OS pool. Microsoft is already in that pool with the upcoming Windows 8, which will run on both tablets and PCs. Google will soon release its “Ice Cream Sandwich” Android build, […]

Apple’s iPhone sold below certain analysts’ expectations, but there’s nonetheless a feeling among some in the numbers-parsing community that sales of the smartphone will spring back before the end of the year. That certain analysts were mildly disappointed in iPhone sales during the most recent quarter may seem a bit odd, considering that Apple managed […]

Research In Motion didn’t whip back the curtain entirely from the QNX-based operating system it expects will put its BlackBerry smartphones on a more competitive footing with the likes of Apple’s iPhone and Google Android, but RIM did offer some details of that BBX platform at its BlackBerry DevCon Americas conference in San Francisco. BBX […]

Apple reported sharp year-over-year spikes in sales of iPhones, Macs and iPads for its fiscal 2011 fourth quarter, suggesting that Google Android has done little to erode Apple’s retail presence or margins. Apple is currently locked in a number of intellectual-property suits against Android manufacturers, including HTC and Samsung, which threaten to limit where their […]

Droid Razr With the Droid Razr, Motorola Mobility is merging its high-end Android smartphone brand (Droid) with that of the thin feature-phones (Razr) that proved so popular a few years back. Jha Sanjay Jha, chairman and CEO of Motorola Mobility, took to a New York City stage to unveil the Droid Razr for journalists. Dock […]

NEW YORK-Motorola Mobility has decided its best option in the long-running fight against Apple’s iPhone was to mate two famous mobility brands, Droid and Razr, into the Droid Razr. The new smartphone hews to the aesthetic styling of Motorola Mobility’s Droid franchise, with the large 4.3-inch super AMOLED screen (with qHD resolution) and an aggressively […]